Thursday, June 26, 2008

Happy 1st Birthday, Josephine!!!!

Jo turns 1 today!




Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Weird Sleeper...

This is what I was presented with when I went to bed last night...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

Officially A Belliveau!

Today I had to go to the social security office to get a new social security card. My license is going to expire on my birthday, July 18th, so I need to renew it but in order to switch my Rhode Island license over to a Massachusetts license, I need a social security card. And I have one... except my father made it invalid when he went through a phase of laminating everything even though it clearly says on the back of it that the card will be invalid if laminated haha. So anyway, I needed a new card before my birthday because if I don't renew my drivers license before then, I'd have to take the drivers test all over again! And trust me... we do not want that! As I applied for a replacement card, I also put my married name on it while I was at it! So close to 2 years after marriage, I am officially a Belliveau!

Here is Jo yesterday with the new toy that Daddy bought her at work. She LOVES it, I knew she would. I've been looking at it online for about a month now and I kept telling Rob we should get it someday because I thought she'd really enjoy it, and she does! In the 2nd picture you can kind of see her trying to climb on top of it...


And eventually she succeeded haha. Yes, I officially have a climber on my hands. I think when she realized she could go up the stairs... she also realized she could climb other things. So ever since then she's constantly trying to lift her left up onto things. And today I walked into the living room and found her basically laying on her stomach on top of the acitivity table. It was pretty funny but I did not get a picture in time.

Here are a few other cute random pictures from yesterday. The last 3 are great haha Jo likes to go "OOOOOOOOH OOOOOOOOH" a lot and that is the face she makes when she says that.





After we went to the social security office we went to a little park that was across the street. Here I am with Jo infront of a pretty fountain...



As a joke I put Jo in the front seat and strapped her up while Rob packed up the trunk after our walk instead of putting her in her carseat. Rob cooperated and pretended he was driving while I took this picture haha

Once Rob got in the car and sat down and closed his door and everything I think Jo thought she was really going to get to ride up front haha she started getting all excited!

In other news, today was my due date! And in 3 days is Jo's birthday! I can't believe her party is next Sunday! AHHHH!

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Hola!

Sorry for the lack of updates. Jo is getting her 7th tooth so I am VERY busy during the day with a very cranky baby and once she goes to sleep all I want to do is relax and EAT. Today I didn't eat one thing until she went to bed, I never got a chance!

So let's make up for lost time. Here are a few pictures from the other day when me and Jo spent like a total of 3 hours outside because it was the only thing that made her happy haha.



I love this next picture. Jo gives such dirty looks to cars that go by haha and this was snapped just as a car zoomed by...




So, breaking news! Jo has learned to climb the stairs. And she actually WALKS up the stairs. When she discovered how to do this, I expecter her to sort of crawl up them but she actually places her feet flat on them and holds on to the step above and walks up them! And she's fast!

Every once and awhile I put Jo in her jumperoo, I've been doing it about every other day and she actually enjoys it! She went through a period where she didn't like going in it but she's back to loving it. She can reach her book shelf from it so she just helps herself and can stay in there for like a half hour before wanting to get out. It is a nice break!



The next day, I thought Jo looked so cute in her Backyardigans t-shirt and green pants. I had to take a picture of her drinking her sippy cup that happened to match her outfit haha

When I was in the kitchen that day, I saw Jo crawl into the bedroom. I figured whatever, there's nothing that's going to hurt her in there... then I realized she had been awfully quiet... so this is what I find...



I love the way Jo's hair looks after I take out her hair clip or elastic, check out this do! (P.s. I LOVE the picture of her about the put the binkie in her mouth hahahaha)



If you know Rob, you know that he has more toys than Josephine haha. Well... look at what I found in one of his bins in the garage! THIS is now Josephine's and she LOOOOVES it. I think because he's so big! He's bigger than her! Look at the kisses Mickey is getting! And yes, that 3rd picture is a PERFECT representation of one of Jo's "kisses" haha



And then these pictures were taken as Mickey dangled above her and then fell on her haha...




So now we're up to today. Look how cute my little baby looked today! I'm sorry, did I say little baby? She's going to be 1 in just a few days!

Today me and Jo took a walk to a shopping plaza nearby. It's about a 15 minute walk and we were gone for like 2 1/2 hours! It was a nice break because Jo is always perfect when we go out so it was really nice to get out of the house especially while she's teething. At Burlington Coat Factory I got her this toy that goes on the fridge. It's the best thing I've ever bought! haha It really keeps her busy when I'm in the kitchen and she's actually playing with a toy rather than going through my cabinets haha. It kept her busy for like 40 minutes today! Yep, FORTY MINUTES!

Jo had a cookie after dinner, as you can tell from these faces, she enjoyed it!


Another thing that REALLY entertained Jo tonight was this random purse I found. She kept pulling it over her head behind her and then back. Don't worry, I kept an eye on her! She seriously just kept doing that over and over for like 20 minutes! This child is easily amused haha



ALRIGHT! Time for some videos!

Jo LOVES to play in the fridge... LOVES it. Just take a look at these videos and you'll see how fast she crawls to get to it when someone opens it...



And this one is from tonight, it came out so dark because the light was behind us but all you have to do is HEAR this video, not necessarily see it.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

OFFICIALLY A Walker!

Well let me update everyone on the past few days...

On Wednesday, Jo was playing with the phone, as she usually does. And I noticed it was on so I turned it off. Well, 2 seconds later someone calls and I answer and I hear "Hello this is Emergency 911, someone just called from this number and hung up, is everything okay there?" haha! YES, that is right! Jo called 911! I don't think she actually dialed 9 then 1 then 1... I believe the phone came with 911 programmed into it somehow and she just activated the speed dial or something. Thank god I answered or else we'd have ambulances and fire trucks showing up at the house!!!

Yesterday Jo had fun emptying the diaper caddy on the side of the playard. I'm sorry to ruin her fun but I ended up packing away most of these bibs since I neeeever use them anymore.


And I'd like to announce that Jo is OFFICIALLY a walker! Before she wouldn't take more than a few steps on her own unless I was infront of her and cheering her on and actively trying to get her to walk to me etc. but now she's walking all over all by herself! She's basically at 50% crawling 50% walking! Here's a great video of her walking and then another one of Jo telling a REALLY good story haha



Some of the picture stills may not be showing up but just press play and it'll work! =)

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Crazy Baby...

Check out this hair after I took Jo's hair clip out...



After lunch, I gave Jo a sippy cup with water and she drank it all but... she never touched the cup haha! she would just lean over and take a sip without touching the cup once!


P.s. I just went on a somewhat large online KitchenAid shopping spree! And I am soooooooooo excited for all my stuff to get here!

Monday, June 16, 2008

My Lil' Walker!

Today was a busy day. We went to the cake place to order Jo's birthday cake and also to go order the food for the party at this Italian restaurant nearby (I did NOT realize how expensive that was going to be... even with our $50 gift certificate.) Well... Jo threw up in the car before we even got anywhere... ugh. I don't think I waited long enough after her lunch to leave... I waited a half-hour and I think I might have to wait a full hour before I go anymore. It was sorta a long drive too so that was also the problem. So we pull into the parking lot of a Home Depot and I clean everything up as much as possible.... but I run out of baby wipes. And I wasn't QUITE done cleaning up. So I grab a corduroy jacket of mine that's been in the car forever and finish cleaning up with that, YUCK! I know!!! I've already washed and used color-safe bleach on it. Then I go into my diaper bag to get the spare outfit I keep in there for Jo annnnd... I realize that I took it out last night when I was going through my bag and organizing it. So we drive to a nearby Wal-Mart where I run in and get Jo a new outfit and a new pair of socks haha (she didn't really need a new pair of socks but they were so cute and frilly!) So then off we go, we ordered our food, went and ordered our cake, then went to a few nearby shops that were near the cake place, and came home. Jo was really good!

Here are some pictures and a video from before we left...




Josephine LOOOVES when I put her up on my shoulders. So we went and visited Daddy who was in the garage cleaning and he snapped these cute pictures... (notice the wardrobe change haha)


And then she especially loves when I drop her from my shoulders onto the couch...



Josephine has a new motivation for walking! We got Josephine this huge ball in Wal-Mart today (you can see it in these following pictures...) and everytime she's holding on to the couch or something and standing, all you have to do is hold the ball out and she'll walk to it. She did it atleast 10 different times within the hour before bedtime! She was a walking maniac tonight!